Can You Find the Correct Word Here is a short poem about winter. Try to find in the list below the correct word for each blank space. Do you remember a Christmas present that you liked very much? Tell the class about it. What was your present? Was it put into your stocking? Did you play with it a great deal? Why did you like it so much? What has become of it? Written Exercise Should you like to write the story that you told and then stand in front of the class and read it to-morrow? You may call your story My Christmas Present CHRISTMAS PROJECT STORY WRITING 83 The name of a story is called its title. Write the title above the story. Notice that each word in the title begins with a capital letter. The important words in titles always begin with capital letters. Be careful to leave an even margin on the left-hand side of your story and to begin the first line farther from the edge of the paper than the other lines. LESSON 31 Class Help Yesterday you wrote a story about your Christmas present. You may read your story to the class to-day. Shall you stand or sit while you are reading your story? Why? Where shall you stand? Why? How shall you stand? Why? Should you like to have your classmates tell you what they like about your story? Should you like to have them tell you how you can make your next story better? If you do not speak loudly enough so that they can hear what you say, should you like to have them tell you? Is there anything else that your classmates can do to help you? If there is time, you may write your story on the blackboard, and your classmates may tell you how you can improve it. See that your spelling, capitals, and periods are all correct. Try to make your work just as perfect as you can. LESSON 32 A Christmas Poem Christmas ought to be the happiest time of the whole year. What can you do to make some one happy? Will it make you more happy if you make some one else happy? Will it be a perfect Christmas if there is no one who is unhappy? Can you think of something that you can do to make some one happy? Here is a Christmas poem that tells you what you can do. Learn to repeat it. Copy the poem neatly for your Christmas book. CHRISTMAS JOY Whenever hearts are happy, To seek some other, sadder heart The joy we share with others Is a joy that's multiplied, Selected. CHRISTMAS PROJECT SPELLING GAME 85 A Spelling Game Seat Work Here is a new game. It is to see how many words you can make from the letters in a word that you choose. Suppose the word is smart. The letters in the word are written at the top of the paper, and under them are written the words that are made, like this: S mart sat at rat art mat tar arm am as star Now see how many words you can make from the letters in the word Christmas. The one wins who can find the most words in the time that your teacher gives you. Do not look at the words that any one else has found. That would not be playing the game fairly. Write the words in a straight line and try to make your paper look like the work in the book. |